Monday 28th January

Well, we had a dreadful night, mostly by our own mistakes. Better to get a lot of bad hands over with on one evening! However to rub salt into the wounds one pair of opponents opened 2NT, their partner gave a quantative 4NT with a flat 10 points and their partner bid 6NT with 21 points. It was unbeatable and only one other pair bid it.

In the last round a normally timid bidder raised their partner's 14-16 NT to 2NT with an isipid 8 count. This was raised to game and although it can go down, defence is always difficult and it made. Again only one other pair are in this game (they made 630).

Knowing our score was bad I bid onto 3NT (after a 1S opening) on this rubbish:


.........................ME
..................... ♠ Q 9 6 5
..................... ♥ A Q
..................... ♦ K Q 10 6
..................... ♣ Q 7 3

♠ A 10 8 4 3 2....................... ♠ J 7
♥ K J 4.............................. ♥ 8 5 2
♦ A.................................. ♦ J 5 4 2
♣ 10 9 5............................. ♣ K 8 6 4

....................... Adrianne
..................... ♠ K
..................... ♥ 10 9 7 6 3
..................... ♦ 9 8 7 3
..................... ♣ A J 2

I got the JS lead to the Ace, now for some reason the defender returns the 8S which I win with the 9 and still have Q6 over 10 432, so I won 3 spade tricks to go with 2 diamonds, 2 clubs and 2 hearts. Actually I made 10, when in with JD the defender led away from KC.

We missed a chance of a good score on this hand:

.......................ME
................... ♠ A K 10 5
................... ♥ 9 7 5 2
................... ♦ 3
................... ♣ A 9 5 3

♠ 2................................. ♠ J 9 8 7 6 3
♥ 10 8 6 4 3........................ ♥ A
♦ 8 5 2............................. ♦ Q
♣ K J 10 8.......................... ♣ Q 7 6 4 2

..................... Adrianne
................... ♠ Q 4
................... ♥ K Q J
................... ♦ A K J 10 9 7 6 4
................... ♣ ---


After a previous blog where I failed to open a weak 4-4-4-1, I decided to go the opposite way and open an even weaker one 1C, the next hand bids 1S, Adrianne bids 2D, I bid 2H (well I have no option now). Adrianne decides to plump for 5D with the doubleton QS looking a liability. Without interference there is one way to get to 6 after 1C-2D-2H-2S-3S-4NT. This finds me with 3 Keycards and Adrianne could bid 6D, even knowing I might have none, I might have 3 Aces which would be enough. Three pairs found 6D and if the North hand opens, and there is no interference, the South hand can always just bid it.